Politics
How Capitalism’s Emphasis on Growth Will Destroy the Planet (and How to Stop It)
Part One: Introduction to Capitalism and Sustainability
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Economics
Debt, growth, and universal income — economic arguments for a fairer baseline.
Politics
Poor and in Debt: How to Break the Cycle
As someone from a seriously disadvantaged background, I never believed I would be accepted into a college, let alone be able to pay for it…
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Economics
The Problem with the Student Loan Debt Discussion
Elizabeth Warren and Robert Menendez paved the way for $50,000 student loan debt forgiveness, but the fight must not stop there.
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Essay
What’s the Use in Worrying?
We can change the world, but it requires that we relearn how to think about the world, and our place within it.
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Economics
Universal Income is a Right
It’s also the way we save democracy Did you know that UBI was almost signed into law in the ‘60s? This is an idea whose time as most certainly come. The question is: do we have enough democracy left to make it happen?
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Economics
It’s Not About Free Trade, It’s About Open Access to Ideas
It has resolved personal worth into exchange value, and in place of the numberless indefeasible chartered freedoms, has set up that single…
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Essay
Hard Work: The Greatest Con
You’ve heard it before: Poor people don’t work because they’d rather do drugs and fornicate with themselves. But is this really true? You’ve heard it all before: “Hard work is good for you. The people who don’t work are lazy. Poor people don’t work because they’d rather do drugs and fornicate with
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